Sunday Extra - Separate Stories Podcast

The idyllic life of this Englishman in Russia changed overnight when Russia invaded Ukraine.

She was convicted of killing her four children nearly two decades ago. But new scientific evidence has come to light, leading some of Australia’s most respected scientists to argue that Kathleen Folbigg was actually the victim of a terrible miscarriage of justice. Some of those scientists now say Australia needs to establish a whole new body to review potentially wrongful convictions. Rachael Brown reports. Special thanks to Flinders University Adjunct Associate Professor Robert Moles for his research assistance.

It's the last thing you want to hear in 2022, cases of the Japanese encephalitis virus have been found in more than 40 piggeries across Australia and moved further south than ever before.

If you could take your brain and zoom in a couple of times – and then a bit more – you’d see structures that look like towers and tentacles, and behave like pieces of automatic Lego.  It’s a crazy miniature world, and one we’re going to get a tour of today. Our tour guide is Dr Kiara Bruggeman, who’s hijacking and hacking these nano-sized structures, in the hopes of helping stroke-affected brains heal. [First aired July 25, 2021]

This week an Indian court in the southern state of Karnataka ruled to uphold a ban on wearing the hijab in classrooms.

Vladimir Putin has become more isolated and secretive in making decisions.

The economic sanctions on Russia are unprecedented but has the intention of the sanctions, and the circumstances in which they’d be lifted, been made clear?

Can you guess this week's mystery caller?

Dr Michelle Telfer is a paediatrician who is renowned for her work treating gender diverse and transgender children and teenagers.

As many communities begin their long road to recovery after floods wreaked havoc along the east coast, discover what's behind the damaging downpours.

The work and scope of the national competition and consumer watchdog, the ACCC, has grown dramatically in the past 10 years

This wave of coronavirus caused more Australians to die in aged care homes than any variant before it. This time we had vaccines and we had time to prepare. Reporter Geoff Thompson investigates how it went so wrong during Omicron.

They will have played a critical role in many of your favourite albums, but what exactly does an audio mastering engineer do? And how is artificial intelligence shaking up what's traditionally been an exacting audio science?

Wednesday the 9th of March marked the seventh National Day of Women Living with HIV, which raises awareness about the stigma, discrimination and lack of representation women with the virus face.

Two Harvard university students have developed a website to connect Ukrainian refugees with hosts and housing all around the world.

Crimean Tatar language teacher and producer Zakhida Adylova made the difficult decision to flee her home in Kyiv.

More than a million people have managed to escape Ukraine by train, despite Russian forces bombing parts of Ukraine's railway network.

As the devastation from unprecedented floods grows in NSW and Queensland, communities are facing a long road to mental and physical recovery.

Can you guess this week's mystery caller?

Medical doctor and activist Ana Cristina González Vélez is a pioneer of the 'Causa Justa' women's rights movement, which led to a radical change in Colombia's abortion law last week.